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On 15 June 1937, Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, landed at Karachi airport in their specially modified Lockheed Model 10 Electra plane. They had been flying for over thirteen hours and travelled more than 1800...

In our last post we met William Lambert, a young Cadet in the East India Company’s Bombay Army, soon after his arrival in India in 1780. He wrote to his friend Jonathan Oldman in England giving his first impressions of...

In April 1780, East India Company military cadet William Lambert wrote from Bombay to his friend Jonathan Oldman in England. He reported on the long voyage from England, his first impressions of India, his hopes of advancement, and a longing...

This guest blog post is contributed by Professor Swati Chattopadhyay, an architectural historian specialising in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of British Colonialism. Edith E. Cuthell, author of My Garden in the City of Gardens (1905), described...